The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-16

ZION or Y per cent. IS reported. caused
by bad haTvests and low prices. The
spring wheat area has been enlarged
| six per cent. from the increase
in immigration and farm making
west of the Mississippi river in the
| district traverSed by the Northern Pa
cific railroad. Most of the increase is
in Dakota which reports an increment
| of a per cent. Total area of wheat is
about 81 .000, 600 acres, fraction of /
per cent more than that of any pre-
Vious crop.
| In the condition of winter wheat
there is no change the average being
S4.9 a reduction of $40 of per cent
In 1885 the June average was 92.7
Reports OF short straw are very numer-
GUS in some districts. There are indi-
cations that yield of grain will be
larger proportionately than of straw.
II there is no increase from this cause
the yield must be less than the aver
| age. The harvest is already in pro-
gress up to the 3Sth degree of north
| latitude. The condition of spring
wheat is good in Dakota and the terri
tories westward, but below the aver
age. The records in Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa and Nebraska general
average for spring wheat is S7.S, which
is lower than in recent years but thir-
| teen points higher than in 1881. AT
the harvesting last year the condition
| averaged so. The dry weather in April
has been injurious to winter wheat.
Insects have committed greater depre-
datiOnS than usual. The central belt
westward from Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia has suffered local damage from
the Hessian fly and the chintz bug has
| wrought injury in Illinois, Missouri
and Kansas. The area of winter rye
has been diminished over per cent,
mainly by a large reduction. In Kan
| sas the condition is better than that of
| the whole, as usual averaging $50.
| acreage of 3 per cent is indicated. The
| increase is in Dakota, California, Ore
gon and the territories. The condition
! averages 81, being slightly above that
of wheat. There is a continuance of the
extension of oats culture. The in
crease is per cent. This crop has
taken part of the area formerly in
wheat. In Kansas there is an advance
of 80 per cent over the acreage of last
year. The increase is large in the North
west, and there is a tendency
to enlargement in all stations of the
| country. In the acreage of cotton an
increase of l per cent. is reported.
There appears to be slight decline in
the states on the Atlantic Coast and
an increase i'll the West. The state
averages are: Virginia, 80; North
Georgia, 9S.5; Florida, 81; Alabama,
100; Mississippi, 1904; louisiana, 102;
Texas, log; Arkansas, 1928; Tennes-
see, 100. The condition of cotton is
higher than in any June since 1886,
with an average of 06.9, and has only
been exceeded three times since 1870.
The best yield in that period, however,
was in 1882, when the June condition
was 50, a figure that has been discount
ed six times since 1870. 1t is a good
beginning, but does not insure good
crop. The state averages are: Vir-
ginia, 90; North Carolina, 80; South |
Carolina, 90; Georgia, 80; Florida, 50;
Alabama, 80; Mississippi, 80; Louis
lana, 81; Texas, 1O1; Arkansas, 9S;
There is generally an universally good
stand" or plant" In Texas the |
early planted did not come up, but the |
late planting is better. There is not a |
full plant in some fields in Arkansas. |
Clean cultivation is reported as a rule |
of a healthy color and good growth.
PATENTS REFUSED.
Land Commissioner Sparks has adj |
vised attorneys for purchaser of lands |
in Nebraska from the Burlington 81
Missouri River Railroad Company that
no more patents can be issued to said
company for lands north of the line of
the road in that state for the reason
that the company has already received
patents under former administrations
of the land Office for 200, 900 acres more
than it is entitled to. The commission
ers some time since recommended suit
to recover this expense.
THE CLIPPER LINE PROTESTS.
WASHINGTON, June Sat the Inter-
State Commerce Commissioners SeS-
sion to-day E. N. Taft, counsel for SUIT
ton s. Co., New York, representing the
continental railroad lines being released
from the operation of section 4. In
referring to the effort of the transcon-
tinental lines and Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company to endeavor to secure
suspension of the fourth section, Taft
said that George Gould is a prominent
candidate for the Presidency of one of
these lines so that the relations between
the companies promise to resemble the
marriage of royal families. AS Illus
trating the nature of competition which
the Clipper lines are compelled to meet,
Taft produced a tariff sheet of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Offering to take freights for California
from several hundred interior eastern
cities and towns at the through rate
charged from New York to California.
He said that these virtually amounted
to rebate to these points. If the
Clipper lines took freight from New
burgh for California they would re-
quire the shipper to pay charges from
the interior town to New York.
EXPECTED SATURDAY.
Information has been received at the
White House that the President and
party expect to arrive there by Satur-
day.
A PRECAUTIONARY CIRCULAR.
Secretary Fairchild has issued a Cir
cular in regard to contagious diseases
in which he says in order to assist
local authorities in the maintenance of
quarantine against the introduction of
| infectious disease as provided in section
1872 revised statutes, the act of April
90, 1878, and the appropriation acts au-
| thoriZing the President to maintain
quarantine points of danger, the
President has determined to establish,
by means of the vessels of the revenue
marine, additional patrol of the coast
of the United States SO far as it may
| be practicable under the existing law
the other duties confided to that ser
vice. The circular contains special in
structionS to the commanding officers
| of revenue cutters to cruise actively on
the outer lines of their cruising grounds
and to exercise special vigilance in
speaking all vessels arriving from
foreign or infected ports. Special reg
1 W tk10 AOCtAA
tiles will be promulgated hereafter,
should occasion require.
REMOVED WITHOUT CHARACTER.
| An order has been issued by the
War Department directing the dis
misSal without character of w. II.
Greer, the only colored man that has
ever been admitted to the Signal
Service. He was appointed
about two years ago and
assigned to duty to Pensacola,
which caused stir. The Sergeant in
charge refused to receive him and was
reduced to the ranks, Greer being put
: in charge. He did not give salts
faction, however, and was sent to
Rochester, New York. 1t was stated
| that his record while there has been
very unsatisfactory. His career in the
Signal Service would have been sum-
marily cut short long ago, but desire
to give him every possible opportunity